atheism and children

[Javaman]

1. "Just because" doesn't really answer my question.

2. If you don't know and, presumably, your church doesn't know, then why should anyone pay any attention to what they have to say? What are these factors that need to be considered?

3. Okay, so my sin is "less reprehensible". Maybe.

Still comes across as a load of presuppositionalist BS. It's still not clear whether I'll suffer as much in hell as a rapist because I masturbated into a test tube. Not sure why it's so hard for your church to figure out which is a worse act. I'm pretty sure anyone with a shred of common sense would have no difficulty determining which act is the greater crime.

1. Not sure what you mean. I was answering your question of "what does the Church teach", and answered it to the point. Not sure where the "just because" came from.

2. No one knows who went to hell, or who is going to hell. That doesn't mean we can't believe certain things are immoral. Judge the sin, not the sinner and all that.

3. I didn't copy and paste the paragraph that came right before that. They were saying it's less reprehensible when doing IVF involving only the married couple versus just using a stranger's egg/sperm and using a surrogate. It wasn't comparing it to rape, because rape is on a whole other level.

I (and others) have specifically asked why it's deemed immoral. Your response has been to claim "because the Church teaches it".

It appears you'd rather be evasive than provide straightforward answers to the various questions I've posed. So be it.